Broad-winged hawks are the most common raptor at Hawk Ridge. Bald eagles are the biggest. Sharpshins come through by the hundreds early each fall. But northern goshawks, the fierce hunters of the ...

Northern goshawk (accipiter gentilis) searching for food and flying in the forest of Noord Brabant in the Netherlands© Henk Bogaard/Shutterstock.com Hawks have long been symbols of power, precision, ...

Want to know their range? The source of their name? What their call sounds like? Cornell Ornithology lab once again provides a comprehensive and well researched guide to the goshawk and virtually ...

Author and falconer Helen Macdonald takes her new goshawk Lupin out for a first test flight. As a precaution, the hawk is tethered with a long line of braided cotton called a creance and outfitted ...

Archive ‘H is for Hawk’ Is This Year's ‘Goldfinch’ Lethal Helen Macdonald talks about H Is for Hawk, her extraordinary memoir about the death of her father, the training of a goshawk, and the author T ...

INDIANAPOLIS — In 2014, author Helen Macdonald shared her grief by writing a memoir called "H Is for Hawk," now being adapted into a movie starring two-time Emmy winner Claire Foy ("The Crown," "First ...

In her best-selling 2015 book "H is for Hawk," Helen Macdonald wrote about training a goshawk after her father’s death. Now a new Nature special, "H is for Hawk: A New Chapter," follows Macdonald as ...

Helen Macdonald was at home in Cambridge, England, when she got a phone call saying her father, Alisdair, had died suddenly of a heart attack on a London street. The news shattered her world, ...

This helmeted hawk may look ready for battle, but she’s actually about to do some serious science. Researchers who strapped a camera to a goshawk’s head have discovered that these birds of prey use a ...

Forty-five minutes north-east of Cambridge is a landscape I’ve come to love very much indeed. It’s where wet fen gives way to parched sand. It’s a land of twisted pine trees, burnt-out cars, ...